Album weeds : or, How to detect forged stamps (1882)
Earée, R. B · London : Stanley Gibbons · leaf 127
115 HOW TO DETECT FORGED STAMPS. … by something stronger than tea. Genuine. Engraved in epargm, on very thin white wove paper ; machine- perforated 14. The king's right shoulder {i.e. to the left of the stamp) forms a continuation of the shape of the oval of horizontal lines of the l^ackground. The end of the moustache wliicli…
Postage stamps
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